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songbird wrote:
Billy wrote:
songbird wrote:
See the movie, "The Corporation", it's on DVD. It's also on YouTube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y888wVY5hzw
links don't help, i'm not always on-line,
it is like a rock sitting in the conversational
road.
Sorry, I miss conscrewed what you said. Get the DVD.
can you write a summary for the link so i know
what you're talking about or referencing? 
???????? Oh, OK.
"The Corporation" is on YouTube in 23 installments.
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFA50FBC214A6CE87
It is the same as the DVD.
I think you'd be better off with the DVD, all things considered.
The Corporation
2003 NR 145 minutes
Filmmakers Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott explore the genesis of the
American corporation, its global economic supremacy and its psychopathic
leanings, with social critics like Noam Chomsky and Milton Friedman
lending insight in this documentary.
Cast:
Mikela J. Mikael, Noam Chomsky, Milton Friedman, Michael Moore
Director:
Mark Achbar, Jennifer Abbott
Genres:
Documentary, Social & Cultural Documentaries, Political Documentaries
This movie is:
Cerebral, Controversial
Format:
DVD
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corporation_%28film%29
The Corporation is a 2003 Canadian documentary film written by
University of British Columbia law professor Joel Bakan, and directed by
Mark Achbar and Jennifer Abbott. The documentary examines the modern-day
corporation, considering its legal status as a class of person and
evaluating its behaviour towards society and the world at large as a
psychiatrist might evaluate an ordinary person. This is explored through
specific examples. Bakan wrote the book, The Corporation: The
Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power, during the filming of the
documentary.
Film critics gave the film generally favorable reviews. The review
aggregator Rotten Tomatoes reported that 91% of critics gave the film
positive reviews, based on 104 reviews.[3] Metacritic reported the film
had an average score of 73 out of 100, based on 28 reviews.
http://dvd.netflix.com/Movie/The-Cor...id=975545367_0
_0&strackid=6395b8cdbaf6f550_0_srl&trkid=222336
MEMBER REVIEW
This is a wonderfully edited documentary about the effects that
corporations have on society. It's highly informative without being
boring. The first point that should be made is that everyone should see
this film because the topics in it effect all of us. It doesn't matter
what your political, economic, or religious status is- if you live on
this planet, you will be directly effected by corporations for your
entire life. Far from being the benevolent providers of goods and
services that make our lives worth living, corporations are by
definition voracious predators who must continually feed their appetite
for more. This movie is not necessarily anti-corporate. It's pretty
objective and presents the truth straight from the CEO's mouth. The
single most important thing that you walk away from this film with is
the understanding of why things are the way they are in America and
other capitalist societies. Most people don't think about these topics
very often, but when you start to put the puzzle pieces together, you
realize that our way of life can't possibly be sustained. This raises
important questions about what we are going to do about it. Further, the
movie gives you a pretty good understanding of the laws governing
corporations. These laws basically force companies to continually grow,
whether or not it is sustainable. To most people, the idea that a
company has to continually grow larger seems to make sense. But what if
that company harvests resources that belong to all people and are in
extremely short supply? You know, things like air, water, trees...the
stuff that the creator gave to all mankind. You will be watching nature
get pillaged to benefit the few until society awakens from it's haze of
denial. This film is the start of that awakening.
Voila, the concise summary.
most of the longer messages and replies are
written when i'm offline so i'm not usually going
to follow a link or look at video.
songbird
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Remember Rachel Corrie
http://www.rachelcorrie.org/
Welcome to the New America.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA736oK9FPg